1976 Year

A candlelight vigil at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday drew more than 100 people to remember the victims of Orange County's deadliest mass murder. Their message: no release for Edward Charles Allaway, the man who shot seven people to death in the basement of the campus library 25 years ago and has been in mental hospitals since. "In my opinion, he should have been put to death 25 years ago," said county Supervisor Todd Spitzer, who helped organize the event.

As one NFL team inches toward perfection, the history makers from another storied franchise -- two hints: Florida, 1970s -- are praying those winds of fortune will shift. Let there be a blemish in the win-loss column. Just one. But it might not happen. The Miami Dolphins could finish 0-16.

Prosecutors filed papers in Superior Court on Monday arguing the 1976 conspiracy indictment against former radical Sara Jane Olson should not be dismissed as overly broad because the grand jury had heard evidence of her direct participation in attempts to bomb Los Angeles police cars. The papers, filed by Deputy Dist. Attys. Eleanor Hunter and Michael Latin, responded to a previous defense motion asking the judge to toss out the 23-year-old indictment.

A candlelight vigil at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday drew more than 100 people to remember the victims of Orange County's deadliest mass murder. Their message: no release for Edward Charles Allaway, the man who shot seven people to death in the basement of the campus library 25 years ago and has been in mental hospitals since. "In my opinion, he should have been put to death 25 years ago," said county Supervisor Todd Spitzer, who helped organize the event.

The city is sprinkled with sites of the untimely deaths of the famous and the fated. From John Belushi to the Black Dahlia, Los Angeles has been the backdrop for many a notorious demise. Solved or unsolved, some murders and suicides become part of the cultural fabric, spawning books, movies and even sightseeing tours. Here is a look at episodes from the city's homicidal history. 1.

As one NFL team inches toward perfection, the history makers from another storied franchise -- two hints: Florida, 1970s -- are praying those winds of fortune will shift. Let there be a blemish in the win-loss column. Just one. But it might not happen. The Miami Dolphins could finish 0-16.

In the beginning, she didn't even recognize him, that's how unworldly she was. "That's O.J. Simpson!" her boss at the nightclub exclaimed. She had never heard of the guy. Later, friends and relatives would recount the episode and shake their heads. It wasn't just the naivete. By the time she married him seven years later at the age of 25, it seemed there had never been a time when the larger-than-life celebrity had not dominated her existence. Their home was his mansion.

The Team Spirit '91 field exercise designed to upgrade the defensive readiness of U.S. and South Korean forces has ended, military officials said Thursday. A 10-day main phase of the war games came to an end Wednesday evening. Troops will return to their posts starting today. Team Spirit has been held each year since 1976.

William Carter Spann, 51, who described himself as the "bad peanut" of President Jimmy Carter's family. Spann, the son of the president's sister Gloria, had been in and out of California jails since 1969 on burglary, robbery, drug and alcohol cases. In 1976, the year his uncle became president, Spann was sentenced to 10 years to life for two armed robberies in San Francisco. His uncle once wrote Spann urging him to stop apologizing for the negative publicity he generated.

She had started before sunup, swimming in the cool of the morning under the lights at Independence Park Pool in Fullerton, and she was still at it as her teammates finished their workouts and pulled themselves up onto the deck. As the members of the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team picked up their gear and headed for the gate, they kept an eye on their celebrated teammate who was still working steadily, up and down in that first lane that she always has to herself.

Prosecutors filed papers in Superior Court on Monday arguing the 1976 conspiracy indictment against former radical Sara Jane Olson should not be dismissed as overly broad because the grand jury had heard evidence of her direct participation in attempts to bomb Los Angeles police cars. The papers, filed by Deputy Dist. Attys. Eleanor Hunter and Michael Latin, responded to a previous defense motion asking the judge to toss out the 23-year-old indictment.

Andrew Willis walked for an hour along the rugged Corona del Mar coast, his path punctuated by intimate coves and tide pools. "There were no footprints other than mine," he recalled. Someone with a small bulldozer had been moving dirt down the side of a bluff 30 feet above, a neighborhood tipster reported. It could be illegal. And it was Willis' job, and only his, to investigate.

U.S. oil imports last year jumped to the highest level since 1979 as consumption rose and domestic production hit a 12-year low, an industry trade group said today. The American Petroleum Institute, representing the major oil producers and refiners, said U.S. oil production fell to 8.1 million barrels a day, a nearly 3% drop from 1987. The rate was the lowest since 1976, the year before production began at the giant Prudhoe Bay oil field on the North Slope of Alaska.